Evergreening is when brand-name pharmaceutical companies patent "new inventions" that are in reality minor modifications of old drugs. These could include new forms of release, new dosages ...

Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal defended India's intellectual property rights during a press meeting with Swiss ...

Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal defended India's intellectual property practices during a press conference ...

Put simply, evergreening is when a pharma company patents minor modifications on the drug as “new inventions” and then uses the new patents to extend their monopoly, freezing out competition ...

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The government will impose tariffs on pharmaceutical companies if the prices in the ... broader patentability criteria, and evergreening practices. India has been resisting such patent ...